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CDA 'a waste of public money'
News, Kamol Hengkietisak, Published on 14/01/2012
» Ukrit Mongkolnavin, chairman of the National Commission on Legal Justice, held a press conference this week to denounce Pheu Thai and the red shirts' proposal to set up a National Constitution Drafting Assembly to draw up a new constitution as costly and time consuming, reported Post Today.
Clearing the decks for more debt
News, Kamol Hengkietisak, Published on 21/01/2012
» The Pheu Thai-led government is embarking on massive borrowing to rehabilitate infrastructure damaged by last year's floods, at the possible cost to fiscal stability, Post Today said.
Kittiratt knows speeding up flood projects takes priority
News, Kamol Hengkietisak, Published on 28/01/2012
» Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong has no time to lose in implementing the government's flood prevention policy, Post Today argues.
Govt faces court challenge to get borrowing decrees scrapped
News, Kamol Hengkietisak, Published on 04/02/2012
» The Yingluck Shinawatra government is facing stiff opposition for issuing four emergency decrees to enable the Finance Ministry to borrow extensively for flood recovery, noted Post Today.
Thailand needs to boost productivity to compete
News, Kamol Hengkietisak, Published on 11/02/2012
» Thailand's economy still has room to grow as it usually expands at a rate of 6-7% depending in the main on the export sector.
Government cannot afford to be bull-headed
News, Kamol Hengkietisak, Published on 07/07/2012
» In a recent Suan Dusit Poll, respondents predicted that the Yingluck government will survive its full term if it postpones consideration of the constitution amendment and national reconciliation bills, noted Thai Rath.
Why were all the economists silent for so long?
News, Kamol Hengkietisak, Published on 18/08/2012
» Nakarn Laohavilai, editor of Post Today, noted that at the beginning of the Pheu Thai government he hardly saw any economists coming out to critique the government's populist policies, which may take the country to the brink of bankruptcy.
Disturbing evidence emerges over 'shady' G-to-G rice deal
News, Kamol Hengkietisak, Published on 01/12/2012
» The Yingluck government faced serious allegations of collusion over the purported government-to-government (G-to-G) rice exports in this week's no-confidence debate, reported Post Today.
Thais led astray by 'dictatorship of majority'
News, Kamol Hengkietisak, Published on 15/12/2012
» 'I cannot see the future for the country unless it can develop much further than at present. Thai people mostly don't understand their own duties, don't respect other people's opinions. Democracy must be engaged with rational discussion, not the dictatorship of the majority," Constitution Court president Wasan Soipisudh said in an interview with Post Today.